Book production - Book illustration - Italy

Lot Comprises:

Alfred Forbes Johnson, A Catalogue of Italian Engraved Title‐Pages in the Sixteenth Century, (Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, No. 11), Oxford, Oxford University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1936, 4to., publisher's printed grey wrappers

Pietro Gnan & Vincenzo Mancini, ed., Le muse tra i libri: il libro illustrato veneto del Cinque e Seicento nelle collezioni della Biblioteca universitaria di Padova, Padua, Biblioteca universitaria di Padova, 2009, oblong 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

The Florentine "Fior di Virtu" of 1491, Translated into English by Nicholas Fersin with Facsimiles of all the original woodcuts, Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1953, 4to., publisher's simulated vellum, gift inscription from Lessing Rosenwald to Bob Pirie

Anna Rosa Gentilini, et al., L'Istoriato: libri a stampa e maioliche italiane del Cinquecento, Faenza, Gruppo Editoriale Faenza Editrice, 1993, fol., publisher's printed boards

Federico Frezzi, Il Quadriregio [Florence: Piero Pacini, 1508, facsimile] with an essay by B.H. Breslauer, London, The Roxburghe Club, 1998, fol., morocco over red cloth gilt, gift from B.H. Breslauer with inscription

Alfred W. Pollard, Italian book illustrations: chiefly of the fifteenth century, London & New York, 1894

Sold as a group, not subject to return.